Google CEO: Bing nothing to worry about, yet

ByMatthew ShaerJune 9, 2009

In an interview today with Fox Business Network, Google CEO Eric Schmidt said he wasn't yet worried about Bing, the new search tool rolled out by Microsoft late last month. "It's not the first entry for Microsoft. They do this about once a year," he said. "I don't think Bing's arrival has changed what we're doing. We are about search, we're about making things enormously successful, by virtue of innovation."

Bing has been greeted warmly by reviewers and users. Earlier today, Search Engine Roundtable, a popular blog, published the results of an anonymous poll of its readers, with 70 percent saying they liked Microsoft's latest search engine. Schmidt acknowledged Bing's potential, but seemed to dismiss it as a different kind of tool.